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Hello,

It has fallen on my shoulders at work to do investigation into
perl's ability with MySQL. Not really having installed the modules
that i need to use the MySQL software, and knowing that someone
someplace has probably had to do this before. What Perl modules do
I need to get it to work properly? There seem to be many many pieces,
Such as DBI, DBD, and the MySQL module stuff. Can someone give me a list of
what I need?

On a side note:
There are two methods of using Msql-Mysql-modules. You can use it as DBD::mysql (as btrott pointed out), or you can use it in native mode.

Although you may feel tempted to, I would recommend against using it in native mode. Sure you get a few new features like $sth->query() without having to prepare() and execute(), but in the long run it prooves to be a bad habbit since you can't easily port your applications to other DBMS's...

When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you:

Use two parentheses: (Like this: :) )
Use one parenthesis: (Like this: :)
Reverse direction of the smiley: (Like this: (: )
Use angle/square brackets instead of parentheses
Use C-style commenting to set the smiley off from the closing parenthesis
Make the smiley a dunce: (:>
I disapprove of emoticons
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